- [O'Brien and Worf are discussing the Maquis]
- Lt. Commander Worf: They should be hunted down and destroyed!
- Chief O'Brien: What for? Defending their homes? Look at what's happened to those people. One day they're eking out a living in some godforsaken colonies on the Cardassian border; the next day the Federation makes a treaty, handing those colonies over to the Cardassians. What would you do?
- Lt. Commander Worf: I would not become a terrorist. It would be dishonorable.
- Chief O'Brien: I wouldn't say that around Major Kira if I were you.
- [Eddington has joined the Maquis]
- Michael Eddington: [to Sisko] I know you. I was like you once. But then I opened my eyes. Open your eyes, Captain. Why is the Federation so obsessed with the Maquis? We've never harmed you. And yet we're constantly arrested and charged with terrorism. Starships chase us through the Badlands, and our supporters are harassed and ridiculed. Why? Because we've left the Federation, and that's the one thing you can't accept. Nobody leaves Paradise, everyone should want to be in the Federation! Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. You're only sending them replicators because one day, they can take their rightful place on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways, you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious, you assimilate people - and they don't even know it.
- Kasidy Yates: You are evil.
- Captain Sisko: I am a Starfleet officer, the paragon of virtue.
- Kasidy Yates: You're more like a parody of virtue.
- Garak: [about Ziyal] She is the only Cardassian woman on the station; she must know she's bound to attract some attention.
- Doctor Bashir: Some - yes. Yours - no!
- Ziyal: [to Garak] I'm half-Bajoran, and that means, I'm an outcast back home. I can't go back, and neither can you. So we can either share some time together, or we can ignore each other. I spent five years in a prisoner of war camp by myself, I don't need your company. But if you'd like to stay, and share the heat with me - maybe tell me something about home that I don't know - then I would welcome your company. And I get the feeling you would welcome mine. Either way, it's up to you.
- Chief O'Brien: How about you, Commander? How do you feel about the Maquis?
- Michael Eddington: I don't have have any feelings about them one way or the other.
- Chief O'Brien: Oh, but you must have an opinion.
- Michael Eddington: I do my job, Chief. Starfleet says to find the Maquis, I'll find the Maquis; they tell me to help them, I'll help them; my opinion is irrelevant. What matters to me is doing my job like a Starfleet officer. Anything else... is an indulgence.
- Kasidy Yates: I dropped my crew off at a Maquis base. I had to come back, but I didn't see any reason to drag them here just to face a prison sentence.
- Captain Sisko: You didn't have to come back either.
- Kasidy Yates: Yes - I did. And I think we both know that's why you left us alone out there - to see if I would.
- Kasidy Yates: I'm not gonna stand here and apologize for what I did. You had your duty. I had mine.
- Captain Sisko: I still have my duty.
- Kasidy Yates: I know.
- Captain Sisko: I'm a little tired. Didn't get much sleep last night.
- Jake Sisko: I guess you're not used to sleeping alone anymore.
- Garak: I've had visions of Ziyal presenting my head to her father as a birthday gift.
- Quark: That's a little paranoid, wouldn't you say?
- Garak: Paranoid is what they call people who imagine threats against their life. I *have* threats against my life. But after my little 'chat' with Major Kira, I feel much better.
- Quark: You do?
- Garak: Isn't it obvious? If Ziyal planned to kill me, Kira would not be trying to warn me away. On the contrary, the good Major would also welcome my untimely demise and do nothing to interfere.
- Quark: Unless that's part of the plan.
- Garak: What do you mean?
- Quark: Oh, you know, Kira acts like she doesn't want you to go, so you'll feel everything's okay, and then you go anyway... Nah, it's too complicated.
- Captain Sisko: You know what, Mr. Eddington? I don't give a damn what you think of the Federation, the Maquis or anything else. All I know is that you betrayed your oath, your duty, and me. And if it takes me the rest of my life, I will see you standing before a court martial that'll break you and send you to a penal colony, where you will spend the rest of your days growing old and wondering whether a ship full of replicators was really worth it.
- Michael Eddington: The only reason I've contacted you is to ask you to leave us alone. Our quarrel is with the Cardassians, not the Federation. Leave us alone, and I promise you you'll never hear from the Maquis again.